The Day of the Triffids
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Actor: David Swift, Emma Relph, Eva Griffiths, John Duttine, Maurice ColbourneBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 157 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: E4166
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- All humans eat vegetables. But what if we were the helpless ones, and the plants were eating us? Following the Earth's close encounter with a comet, a meteor shower strikes Britain's population blind. Bill Masen, recovering in a London hospital from a vicious plant attack, is one of only a few people to survive with his eyesight intact. But the world he emerges to has altered terrifyingly into a n
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DVD Review: Not With A Bang, But A Triffid...
Summary: 5 Stars
Wednesday May 12th 1982: Agriculturalist, Bill Masen, awakens in a London hospital to discover that he has miraculously missed the end of the world. Unbeknownst to Bill, whose eyes have been swathed in bandages for ten days following some emergency ocular surgery, the majority of the population of the planet has been blinded following a unique cosmic event. Staggering through the streets of an eerily silent London trying to make sense of it all, Bill begins to become very nervous indeed when he realizes that the balance of power between man and Triffid - large, genetically engineered, carnivorous, mobile plants farmed en masse for their high grade oil and possessed of poisonous whip-like stings - has been changed irrevocably and in the days that follow, Bill will realize just how fragile man's dominance of the planet really was...
In direct opposition to the awful sixties big screen version starring Howard Keel, The BBC's six part adaptation of John Wyndham's classic dystopian sci-fi novel, "Day Of The Triffids" is as faithful an adaptation of a literary classic as you're ever likely to see. Originally broadcast in the fall of 1981, it made an indelible impression on my burgeoning young mind and remains a bleak, brutal television classic nearly thirty years later. An obvious influence on Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later", Douglas Livingstone's script manages to retain all the intelligence, bleakness, humanity and humour of Wyndham's novel whilst contemporizing the setting and Ken Hannam's evocative direction favours the 'less is more' approach - a wise move considering the budgetary constraints he was clearly working against (this was a television series shot on video tape, with filmed inserts, by the BBC in 1981, after all). The title sequence, featuring a montage of green-lit faces gazing up at the heavens and being assailed by Triffid whips to the accompaniment of Christopher Gunning's ominous choral arrangements, remains one of the most memorably sinister to ever grace a television program.
John Duttine (later the star of the offbeat BBC sitcom, "Lame Ducks") delivers an excellent performance as an everyman thrust into an unthinkable situation and is ably supported by Emma Relph's reluctant heroine and Maurice Colbourne's ambiguously ruthless anti-hero; though it has to be said, the real stars of the the piece are the Triffids themselves which, though they may look rather clunky in these days of slick CGI, are realized using some nicely squishy plant props and an ominous sound design (the sound of the monstrous vegetables rattling their leg-like stumps against their knotty boles has haunted me for some twenty eight years).
Recently watching the entire three hour series in it's entirety again with my partner, who hadn't even been conceived when it was originally broadcast, we were both struck by how well it stands up as a piece of drama today. In her own words, "it's better than most of the shows on TV today". High praise indeed and a judgment I wholeheartedly endorse.
If you like what you see here, I also recommend that you check out the original 1975 incarnation of the post-apocalyptic plague drama, "Survivors"(although don't bother with the sanitised, PC remake as its terrible), as well as the spooky sci-fi murder mystery, "The Nightmare Man", and that classic of hydrophobic paranoia, "The Mad Death", which were all made by the BBC, back in the days when the television licence fee was actually spent on worthwhile programming.
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